UN Envoy In Algiers For Talks On Disputed Western Sahara
Yahoo News AFP Algiers (AFP) - UN envoy Christopher Ross met Algeria's president at the start of a mission aimed at breaking the impasse between Morocco and Algeria-backed separatists over the future of Western Sahara. The Polisario Front backed by Algeria has been...
In Fact: Mali Hotel Attack- Lessons From The Relentless Jihad In The Sahara Sands
The Indian EXPRESS AP Malian security forces outside the Radisson Blu in Bamako, Mali, after Islamist terrorists stormed the luxury hotel and took hostages on November 20. In 1509, at the end of a long journey across the sands of the Sahara, Mohammed al-Zayati, a...
France’s Hollande Thanks Morocco For Help After Paris Attacks
Al Arabiya Reuters, Paris President Francois Hollande on Friday thanked the King of Morocco for the "effective help" the north African state had given France after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Moroccan and French sources have told Reuters Rabat...
Morocco And France United To Combat Terrorism More Efficiently – OpEd
Eurasia Review by Said Temsamani Moroccan Press Agency (MAP) reported that King Mohammed VI was received at the Elysee Palace in Paris, by French President Francois Hollande, the King’s Cabinet said. During this audience, the two heads of State voiced the shared...
Sahara-Sahel Crisis : US Aid Worker Who Devoted Life To Helping Poor Is Killed In Mali Terror Outrage
Telegraph.co.uk by Peter Foster Anita Datar, 41, went to help Africa but was gunned down by al Qaeda jihadists. She had dedicated her life to bettering the lives of some of the planet’s poorest people, but that counted as nothing when Anita Datar was confronted by...
Up To 100 Migrants Try To Jump Fence From Morocco Into Spanish Enclave
AFP Daily Star Lb MADRID: Close to 100 migrants tried to storm the border fence from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla Saturday in a scramble that left one man seriously injured, authorities said. Moroccan security forces managed to stop some of the migrants...
Development, Morocco Invests In South
ANSAmed - Italy Development plan worth 7 billion with 120,000 jobs. RABAT - Investing in the South and on an area between the provinces of Laayoune, Dakhla and Guelmin, the triangle that is a thorn in the side of Morocco, is part of the project of king Mohammed VI -...
France’s Hollande Thanks Morocco For Help After Paris Attacks
Reuters by John Irish President Francois Hollande on Friday thanked the King of Morocco for the "effective help" the north African state had given France after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Moroccan and French sources have told Reuters Rabat had...
US Approves TOW Missile System Sale To Morocco
DefenseWorld.net TOW Missile System The US state Department has approved $157 million sale of TOW 2A, Radio Frequency (RF) Missiles and M220A2 TOW Launchers to Morocco. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of...
These African ‘Countries’ Don’t Officially Exist – Including One That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Mail&Guardian Africa by Samantha Spooner Many African countries have regions pushing for independence, and which will likely not come to pass. Post-colonial African liberation movements you might not have heard too much about, and why owners like Angola, Zambia...